WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
Today at a Senate Finance Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a senior member of the Committee and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, voted yes on legislation (https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-finance-democrats-offer-plan-to-end-trump-tax-audit-immunity-deal-bar-future-corruption) that would prohibit the IRS and Treasury from entering into or enforcing any agreement or settlement that grants audit immunity to a sitting President, their family members, or related business entities. This would have effectively barred implementation of the settlement deal that the Department o...